Underwhelming plants or underwhelming gardener?
On the face of it It was predictable. ‘Red Queen’ stuff. You know the sort of thing: ‘Off with their heads!’ In her last Saturday’s piece: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/9027558/Dont-put-up-with-underwhelming-plants.html Anne Wareham, the self styled ‘Bad Tempered Gardener’ says: ‘Don’t put up with underwhelming plants. Plants seduce us into waiting for them to come back to life, when [...]
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Over the garden wall…..
It is always worth a peek around you when you are out and about. Early last summer Lesley and I were visiting a nursery and a casual glance (no lets be honest a blatantly nosey, tip-toeingly precarious, neck-craning peer over a stone wall) revealed this intriguing landscape: The pale trunks of pollarded sweet chesnuts emerge [...]
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Little and Large
I was saying to someone, I forget who, on twitter the other day that I love this time of year. The last few afternoons, gardens have been dramatic landscapes, with exhilarating floods of late sunlight in piercing shafts which are almost blinding: The shadows are deep and dark and completely distorted This is not without [...]
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‘Microclimateology’ – my little plan for global domination
OK, I admit it I am responsible for this early flowering stuff. (On twitter everyone is saying how soon everything is coming into flower!) Rest easy, I am not exactly a Bond-style villain for whom heating this world up is part of a cunning scheme to control the entire universe Nor am I personally emiting [...]
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